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11/05/2022 - Government Policies

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May 11, 2022

The Central Government of India should invest more substantially in improving the reliability of various socio-economic surveys. Examine (200 Words)

Refer - The Hindu

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KEY POINTS

·        The fifth edition of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) provides a valuable insight into changes underway in Indian society.

·        It throws light on traditional parameters, for instance immunisation among children, births in registered hospital facilities, and nutritional levels.

·        The prevalence of anaemia has actually worsened since the last survey in 2015-16. But the survey’s major contribution is its insight into behavioural and sociological churn.

·        When highlights were made public last year, the focus was on India’s declining total fertility rate that had, for the first time in the country’s history, dipped to below the replacement level, or a TFR (Total Fertility Rate) of 2.1.

·        The fertility rate among Muslims dipped to 2.3 in 2019-2021 from 2.6 in 2015-16, the sharpest among all religious communities when compared to the 4.4 in NFHS 1 in 1992-93.

·        Only 72% of Indian men think it is not right to coerce, threaten or use force on a woman if denied sex, which again points to the vast territory that needs to be covered in educating men about equality, choice and freedom in marriage.

·        Multiple surveys such as the NFHS, Sample Registration Surveys, the Census, labour, economic surveys and ways of interrogation are necessary for insights about a country as vast and complex as India.

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